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Yoda was one of the oldest Jedi Masters,[3] having lived approximately 900 years before his death.[4] Over the course of his 800-year-long career as a Jedi Master, Yoda trained no less than 20,000 Jedi.[5]

After serving as a Jedi Knight for three years, Anakin Skywalker advanced to the point in his training that he felt he deserved the rank of Jedi Master, though the Council did not agree. When Supreme ChancellorSheev Palpatine appointed Skywalker to the Council as his personal representative, the Council reluctantly agreed, hoping to use him as a means to spy on Palpatine. However, the Council did not grant Skywalker the title of Master. Skywalker took this as an insult, as no Jedi in the history of the Jedi Order had ever been placed on the Council without receiving the rank of Master.[7]